Editing geographic information of note

[archyguo 0]

Geographic search is available in Professional version plan.

However, the location coordinate is created on mobile device and is not shown in the note information filed.

Sometimes I want to assign a specific coordinate for note, the auto-generated coordinate is not always accurate and not the place I want.

[gazumped 12,070]

On 7/23/2021 at 9:57 AM, archyguo said:

Sometimes I want to assign a specific coordinate for note

Hi.  How do you define your co-ordinates?  There seem to be several system in play - there's traditional Lat/Long,  Google Maps has 'plus codes',  and What3Words uses... well,  three random words... to define a location:  as in ///shower.wash.soon for the White House Rose Lawn.  While Evernote's new geolocation feature (I believe) allows you to find notes taken in the vicinity of a specific Lat/Long location,  I'd imagine you could assign your own locations as keywords, using any one of the standard terms plus a tagging or keyword system for the area you might be interested in.  <Washington>,  plus links to any pictures taken in the area forinstance.

It would be possible to scale that up for different countries,  or get more granularity by defining individual buildings.

[PinkElephant 8,819]

The coordinates stored by EN and used for the search are the classical longitude/ latitude coordinates. You can (in the geosearch available in the Professional plan) define a radius around a location to search for matching notes..

Editing the location is possible in the mobile app by moving the needle around - the mobile apps are the only ones that attach a geolocation to the notes, even if the desktops could do the same (at least my Mac knows where he is).

My conclusion: The geolocation is a system controlled metadata. If you want to use and manipulate it, you do so at your own peril. System defined metadata modified by a user can spawn all sorts of unexpected side effects - maybe years later when a new release suddenly makes use of a field that was never used by the app before.